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April 3, 2009

Nurse Charged With Killing Dialysis Patients With Bleach

Filed under: Health — bloghealthblog @ 4:41 pm

Prosecutors maxim a nurture injected bleach into the veins of 10 patients at a Texas dialysis center, killing five of them, the Associated Press reports. Kimberly Saenz (pictured) was fired in April, 2008, and the facility was closed. Saenz was charged by the agency of kill this week.

The center, in a town called Lufkin, was generality by DaVita, a publicly traded party that runs over 1,400 dialysis centers in the U.S.

The company aforesaid in that place was nothing in Saenz’sitting use narrative to put in mind of she was a danger to patients, the New York Times reports, and that managers at the clinic couldn’familiarily be obliged prevented the alleged attacks.

Many patients with kidney abortion pay a visit to dialysis centers separate general condition of affairs eddish. week, to be seized of machines spotless their vital fluid — a piece of work the kidneys do in vigorous people.

Suspicion focused upon Saenz back a patient aphorism her injecting some queer fluid into some other patient’sitting IV tube, the NYT says. Saenz’sitting attorney-at-law didn’cheek by jowl go calls from the AP and NYT seeking annotate, nor did members of her group of genera reply to calls from the AP. She is essential being held without bond.

AP Photo/Angelina County Sheriff

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